RADICALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radicalize mean? 

• RADICALIZE (verb)
  The verb RADICALIZE has 1 sense:

1. make more radical in social or political outlook

  Familiarity information: RADICALIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADICALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they radicalize    ... he / she / it radicalizes   
Past simple: radicalized   
Past participle: radicalized   
-ing form: radicalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make more radical in social or political outlook

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Her work in the developing world radicalized her

Hypernyms (to "radicalize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody